“Children were taken from them by Border Patrol agents who said they were going to give them a bath.” They never came back.

Boston Globe and Washington Post articles this weekend have enraged many who are rightly targeting their anger at U.S. Border Patrol agents for not only separating migrant children from their parents – as a warning to others thinking of coming to America undocumented – but for the despicable method they have decided to use.

At least 1500 children who traveled from Central America – one of the most violent places on earth – with their children to seek asylum have been taken from their parents and lost by the Trump administration. Some have been handed over to human traffickers. And since Trump’s Border Patrol, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), and Homeland Security agents – all of whom report to DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen (photo) – began implementing the new policy in May, already 650 children have been ripped from their parents, many with no possibility of ever seeing them again.

Now that number is 500 per week, according to U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein.

Under new policies invoked by the Trump administration – policies which the President repeatedly lies about, claiming they are laws created by Democrats, which his false – migrant children coming into the U.S. are taken from their parents and then treated as unaccompanied minors.

“The Trump administration says the goal is simple: to punish people trying to enter the country illegally, and that means immediately arresting adults and placing them in detention without their children,” The Boston Globe reports. It does not mention that many of these families are being denied the legal right to request asylum.

Not only is the policy of intentionally stripping children away from their parents causing outrage, the methods used by Border Patrol agents are eliciting comparisons to the Nazis.

It’s not hyperbole.

“Aleman-Bendiks, the public defender,” a paragraph hidden near the end of The Boston Globe’s devastating article begins, “said several of her clients have told her their children were taken from them by Border Patrol agents who said they were going to give them a bath. As the hours passed, it dawned on the mothers the kids were not coming back.”

Chilling.

It gets worse.

“Last month a Honduran father separated from his wife and 3-year-old son killed himself in a Texas jail cell,” The Washington Post notes.

One of the judges mass-processing cases of people crossing the border illegally – which is a misdemeanor, had little empathy for the families. Immigration courts are not like the courts Americans are used to. There are few rights extended to those being prosecuted, for starters.

“I trust and hope that you will be reunited with your family members,” federal magistrate Peter Ormsby told parents desperate to be reunited with their children. “But I also hope you understand that the reason there was a separation is that you violated the laws here of the United States.”

“America first” “stabbed in the back” the constant lying and bow kids being sent to “bathe” They just can’t help themselves from recycling Nazi techniques. 🤔🇺🇸
ICE even harasses American citizens who get “too close” to the border now. 😕🇺🇸@GOP@ICEgov

You read some of the stories about what ICE Is doing to people trying to cross the border and tell me that Nazi parallels aren’t apt. And don’t give me any bullshit about “law and order”. This is xenophobia pure and simple. I can’t believe Americans are doing this.

Border Patrol and ICE agents don’t deserve anyone’s sympathy, empathy, or friendship. They should all be publicly shamed and tried in court (and preferably spat on every day for the rest of their miserable lives) for taking part in these nazi-inspired tactics. https://t.co/yMBlg89rFN

And let’s not forget the the use of the Nazi style of segregating, traumatizing, and “ethnic cleansing” by separating mothers and children at the border. This is the kind of stuff that makes @SenateMajLdr smile. That’s so creepy. #BlessedDay

Hey in case anyone still denies that we live in Nazi America with concentration camps and that ICE is the gestapo, saying that the children would just be bathed before they disappear forever was the exact playbook of…

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The Trump administration’s Justice Dept. lawyers say migrant children detained in federal concentration camps do not need soap or toothbrushes despite a settlement agreement that requires the U.S. Government to keep them in “safe and sanitary” facilities. The DOJ also argues that the children, detained in the Southern border camps, can continue to sleep on cold concrete floors in overcrowded cells without being in violation of the agreement.

The DOJ made the argument Tuesday before a three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit, Courthouse News reports, noting the judges appeared “incredulous” with the government’s claims.

Sarah Fabian, senior litigation counsel for the U.S. Department of Justice, told the judges that the settlement agreement, known as the Flores Agreement, is vague about what constitutes “safe and sanitary” and does not specify specific items, the AP notes.

The DOJ is asking the Court to reverse a judge’s 2017 ruling on the Flores Agreement that added specific requirements, including soap and toothbrushes, which were not specified in the original.

“It wasn’t perfumed soap, it was soap. That’s part of ‘safe and sanitary.’ Are you disagreeing with that?” he asked.

Judge Fletcher also said it is “obvious enough” that “if you’re putting people into a crowded room to sleep on a concrete floor with an aluminum-foil blanket on top of them that it doesn’t comply with the agreement.”

Fletcher also took issue with the government forcing children to sleep on cold concrete floors.

“Are you arguing seriously that you do not read the agreement as requiring you to do anything other than what I just described: cold all night long, lights on all night long, sleeping on concrete and you’ve got an aluminum foil blanket?” Fletcher asked Fabian. “I find that inconceivable that the government would say that that is safe and sanitary.”

U.S. Circuit Judge Marsha Berzon also weighed in on the sleep deprivation issue.

“You’re really going to stand up and tell us that being able to sleep isn’t a question of safe and sanitary conditions?’” she asked Fabian.

Eleven people are dead after a white male gunman walked in to The Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and opened fire Saturday morning, yelling, “All Jews must die.” He carried an AR-15 style rifle and multiple handguns. At least six others, including law enforcement officers were wounded in this anti-Semitic hate crime and terror attack. The Jewish house of worship reportedly was packed for a baby naming ceremony and Shabbat, the Jewish sabbath.

It is a week that began with the discovery of a pipe bomb in the mailbox of liberal philanthropist George Soros, who is Jewish. We now know the suspect, a Trump-loving white supremacist, sent at least 13 other bombs to prominent Democrats. And though it has received less attention, a white man this week shot and killed two Black people in a Kentucky grocery store, after unsuccessfully trying to enter a Black church.

Americans today immediately took to social media to mourn, share their thoughts, support each other and the Jewish community, and to make clear they hold President Donald Trump and his hate-filled rhetoric at least partly responsible for this latest act of terrorism and hate – as they do for the 14 pipe bombs sent this week.

In short, many believe President Trump has enabled an environment of white supremacy, including anti-Semitism, in America, through his hate-filled rhetoric, his incessant attacks, and his repeated refusals to completely denounce hate.

Trump absolutely denies any responsibility, and Friday afternoon, as he headed to another campaign rally, threatening he “could really tone it up,” referring to his rhetoric.

Meanwhile, Trump supporters on the right are insisting – falsely – that the suspect in the Pittsburgh synagogue mass shooting, 46-year old Robert Bowers, is a Democrat or a “leftist,” because he supposedly opposed Trump. Bowers, according to reports, disliked Trump because Trump wasn’t anti-Semitic enough.

But Bowers certainly shared Trump’s hatred of immigrants, especially the migrants fleeing the drugs, gangs, and poverty in Honduras, willing to walk their way to the United States, as The Toronto Star’s Daniel Dale reports:

The suspect also appeared to suggest, baselessly, that Jews were behind or connected to the caravan. Some on the right, including Rep. Matt Gaetz, have spread a baseless theory that Soros was giving caravan participants money. (Trump then reposted the video Gaetz posted.)

Robert Bowers was a white male in his 40s who was a right wing, white supremacist who was very anti-immigrant, viewed himself as a “nationalist,” hated globalists and thought diversity was a threat to America. But Trumpers want you to believe he didn’t like Trump.

Seriously look at the trumpers online. There’s almost zero sympathy for the Jewish Americans killed by the right wing terrorist. The #MAGA crowd simply doesn’t want to have their beloved trump blamed for it. #MAGAShooter#MAGABomber

And here’s what some others on social media are saying about today’s horrific anti-Semitic hate crime, and just how much they think Trump is responsible for it:

Yes, their blood is on Donald Trump’s hands.Yes, it is on @Twitter’s as well.No, this is not a “both sides” situation.No, I will not be listening to any lectures on civility from anyone on either side. https://t.co/e65Xjqes4o

Your GOP colleague, Steve King, gave an interview to an Austrian neo-nazi website and mused about an “antidote” for George Soros. Will you support expelling him from your party? https://t.co/wCgF6ANGbv

They were hosting a bris this morning at this synogogue. A bris. Parents, perhaps for the first time, were marking the birth of their son just eight days prior— a profound and emotional moment in their collective lives— and some maniac burst in a shot everyone. During a bris.

You can not say that you stand with the Jewish community when your president, a year ago, called people who screamed “Jews will not replace us” fine people. Trump preaches hate and intolerance, and the victims blood are on his hands and yours.

No, you don’t. You work for a guy that praises Nazi’s and promotes anti-Semitic theories daily by using code words like Soros and “globalists”. Everyone knows he means Jews. This blood is on your hands and everyone who works for Trump.

.@IvankaTrump I am not interested in your gaslighting tweets. This is what YOUR family stands for, from Kashoggi to a blind eye to Yemen to caging families and babies to racism xenophobia to misogyny and so many forms of hate. Please go away. What you say is MEANINGLESS

‘Violence Is the Almost Inevitable Endpoint’: GOP Strategist Chilled by Trump’s Public Embrace of Nationalism

Republican strategist Rick Wilson found himself deeply disturbed by President Donald Trump’s decision to embrace overt nationalism this week, and he thinks that the logical outcome of that ideology will lead to violence on the streets of America.

Writing in the Daily Beast, Wilson breaks down the history of nationalism in the 20th century and explains how governments that have embraced it as their guiding creed have almost always ended in calamity.

“It isn’t feckless, PC social justice-warrior hand-wringing to remind you how dangerous nationalism is as a tool in the hands of those who believe racial identity defines a nation,” he writes. “The 20th Century is replete with examples where nationalism slips down a long, bloody trough to violence, ethnic cleansing, and genocide.”

Wilson says that nationalism thrives because it appeals directly to people’s darkest fears of their fellow humans and tells them that their fears are totally justified.

“It’s a story where the wicked ‘they’ have suppressed and insulted the working volk,” he writes. “‘They’ have a different face in every iteration of this grim dirge. Sometimes, they’re Tutsi. Sometimes, they’re the educated class. Sometimes, they’re Jews.”

In his conclusion, Wilson paints a grim picture of where America is headed under Trump’s nationalist leadership.

“Nationalism deafens its adherents to appeals to the better angels of our nature,” he writes. “Nationalism excuses their hatreds, their resentments, and ultimately their violence… and that violence is the almost inevitable endpoint of most successful nationalist movements in the last hundred years.”